THE SUPREME COURT: The Hollywood Ten

Only a few high-priced lawyers
maneuvering desperately stood last week between "the Hollywood ten" and
jail. Two of the noisy leftist screenwriters and directors had been
convicted of contempt of Congress, fined $1,000 each, sentenced to
one-year jail terms for refusing to tell the House Un-American
Activities Committee their political affiliations. Last week the
Supreme Court decided, 6 to 2, not to hear their appeals.

While the court's action dealt only with Writers Dalton Trumbo and John
Howard Lawson, it was equally decisive for the eight other members of
the Hollywood ten...